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Why use MiniMax H3 on Vercel AI Gateway?
Vercel AI Gateway offers MiniMax H3. Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more.
Compare MiniMax H3 across 3 providers to find the best fit for your use caseInput / 1M
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Output / 1M
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Cache
Not sourced
Batch
Not sourced
Setup recipe
Python + curlInstall
pip install openaiAuth
export AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=...Call
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],Model ID
minimax/minimax-h3Request example
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="minimax/minimax-h3",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "minimax/minimax-h3", not the LLMReference slug "minimax-h3".
- creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
- The examples expect AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Compare MiniMax H3 Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| MiniMax | — | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | — | — |
| Together AI | — | — |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodalAudio
About MiniMax H3
MiniMax H3 (API MiniMax-H3) is an open multimodal video model (text/image/video/audio refs → 4–15s video with audio at 768p/2K). Open-sourced 2026-08-03; API on platform.minimax.io. $0.08/s 768P, $0.13/s 2K.
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Model Specs
Released2026-08-03